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| It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock |  | | Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | | | To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | | | For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old? | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | | | Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | | | Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | |
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